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profquail on Jan 30, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ruby deploys temporarily disabled

That's a very good point to make.

.NET developers, you can set up a similar cache for NuGet packages to avoid downtime (and reduce bandwidth usage): http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToAccessNuGetWhenNuGetorgIs...

kawsper on Jan 31, 2013 [–]

Is bandwidth usage really a concern?

profquail on Jan 31, 2013 | [–]

For most people/enterprises, no. But there are still many places in the world -- in the US, even -- with slow and/or spotty internet connections, so it would make sense for them.

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